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The social limits of art

Title
The social limits of art / John Manfredi.
Author
Manfredi, John, 1920-
Publication
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1982.

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Description
viii, 199 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Arts and society
  • Culture
  • Culture
  • culture note
  • culture (concept)
  • Arts and society
  • Kunstsoziologie
  • Kunstsociologie
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [191]-192.
Contents
Art, Culture, and Professionalism -- Art as a Socially Constrained Pursuit -- Technique, Significant Experience, Abstraction -- The Playing Out of Artistic Styles -- The Professionalization of Art: Isolation and Technology -- The Professionalization of Art: The Taught Tradition -- Critics, Merchants, Consumers, Bureaucrats -- Art and the Cultural System: The Social and Cultural Dynamics of P.A. Sorokin -- Art and the Cultural System: F.S.C. Northrop's The Meeting of East and West, Beginning, the Spirit of the West -- Art and the Cultural System: F.S.C. Northrop's The Meeting of East and West, Conclusion, the Spirit of the East -- The Cultural Functions of the Artist: Kroeber's Configurations of Culture Growth.
ISBN
  • 0870233726
  • 9780870233722
LCCN
82008661
OCLC
  • ocm08476165
  • 8476165
  • SCSB-67928
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library